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News: Still Corners announce UK/Europe/US tour and release the shimmering and cinematic single ‘Far Rider’.
The sound of Still Corners has an ethereal majesty: jangling, reverberated distant guitars carving swathes in the cloudless skies and velvet soft vocals gliding across the endless horizon carrying yearning, melancholic melodies. Their new track ‘Far Rider’ is a cinematic experience – over seven minutes of frictionless gliding and soaring with crystalline guitars. It is …
100 albums of 2021 you shouldn’t miss, plus playlist
In a moment a folly, I (not me and my editorial team, or my writers, or indeed anyone) decided to make a playlist of the year. Not one of those in order ones, just a playlist of good records, written by the esteemed writers here at Backseat Mafia. I don’t know what possessed me to …
Track: Still Corners release the driving shimmering single ‘Heavy Days’ and announce massive EU/US tour.
‘The Last Exit’ from UK duo Still Corners, released earlier this year (reviewed by me here), was a magnificent and evocative collection of glittering and sparkling songs filled with magic and mystery. Still Corners are back with a new single – ‘Heavy Days’ – and an announcement of a comprehensive tour of the EU and …
Album Review: Still Corners release the majestic album “The Last Exit”: a magical journey of mystery, romance and isolation.
In ‘The Last Exit’, Still Corners have perfectly captured a magical ethereal desert landscape in the spacious layers of their songs. Crystal sharp guitars, soaked in reverb and mystery, punctuate a bedrock of acoustic instruments and evocative, wild and unnatural sounds. Singer Tess Murray’s crooning, louche vocals smooth the path. There is an inherent a …
SEE: Still Corners’ ‘The Last Exit’: Joshua Tree mystery preludes January album
STILL CORNERS have released the first song from their forthcoming fifth studio album, due for release on January 22nd, 2021. The title track “The Last Exit”, for which we’ve embedded the video below, is available now on all platforms. The musical project of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murphy, the group formed after a chance meeting …
Album Review: Still Corners – Strange Pleasures
Every once in a while you have to put away the Morbid Angel and N.W.A. and just chill out. It can’t all be bloodlettings and drive-by shootings. Sometimes you need a breathy voice and a mellowed-out vibe to bring you back down to earth for a bit. Well, Still Corners is here to do just …